Bovingdon School Quotes & Sayings

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. — Jean-Luc Godard

Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down. — Orison Swett Marden

To grab at my feet, but fearing they will upset my balance and knock me off. They beg now, in quiet desperation, but I have turned my — Anonymous

I'm having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there's no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you'll have no use for after you're elected. — Gracie Allen

Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God. — Meir Soloveichik

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core — Cecelia Ahern

When you become a celebrity, your shit becomes news. — M.F. Moonzajer

You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection. — Carine Roitfeld

The common denominator is a love of music. — Natasha Bedingfield

The destiny of all species is extinction as such, fortunately for them. — T.H. White

On the Gallows Once
Kofi Awoonor

I crossed quite a few
of your rivers, my gods,
into this plain where thirst reigns
I heard the cry of mourners
the long cooing of the African wren at dusk
the laughter of the children at dawn
had long ceased
night comes fast in our land
where indeed are the promised vistas
the open fields, blue skies, the singing birds
and abiding love?
History records acts
of heroism, barbarism
of some who had power
and abused it massively
of some whose progenitors
planned for them
the secure state of madness
from which no storm can shake them;
of some who took the last ships
disembarked on some far-off shores and forgot
of some who simply laid down the load
and went home to the ancestors — Kofi Awoonor

Hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice. — Charlotte Forten Grimke

Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Most powerful is he who never cared for power. — Debasish Mridha

I wouldn't change it you know," he said, his breath raising goose bumps on the skin of my neck. "The girls, the other boys, everything we experienced before this moment. Because that was all wrong. And I think we needed to feel what was wrong to know what's right. — Megan Erickson